From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 08:43:05 -0500 From: Russ Cox To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] acme design In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 975d716e-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > could anyone explain me why Edit command (plus the whole language) > was hardwired into acme (thus breaking its purpose as UI, not an editor, > and moving closer in spirit to those windozish bloat apps, IMHO) > instead of a separate prog, like mail was implemented? > Again, why would be an "acme sam" a bad solution?? > sorry if i am too naive... You could try using the old edit interface as described in the acme paper. It was clunky. Piping things through sed or just running sam to do what you wanted was much better. In contrast, I use Edit almost every day, to do things that you can't do with sed. Russ